AUGUSTA - Brigadier General Janet Hicks has been chosen to command the U.S. Army Signal Center and Fort Gordon, the first woman to head a major military installation in Georgia. <br>
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Hicks, a native of Iowa, was named earlier this week by the Pentagon. She had been director of command, control, communications and computer systems in U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii. <br>
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Base spokeswoman Marla Jones said the date for her arrival at Fort Gordon has not been set. <br>
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John Nino, executive secretary of the governor's Military Affairs Coordinating Committee, said there have been women in high-ranking jobs at the Army's Forces Command Fort McPherson. Hicks is the first to head a major command in the state. <br>
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Fort Gordon has about 12,000 military personnel and 2,300 civilian workers and has an economic impact of nearly $826 million annually. <br>
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The 56,000-acre base is the home of several communications and intelligence units.
